Improvement in folding-chairs



JOHN COMPTON, Improvement in Folding-Chairs.

Patented May 28,1872.

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JOHN o. COMPTON, or OLARKSVILLE, lissrenon 'ro HIMSELF AND BALTUS PICKEL, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN FOLDING-CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,221, dated May 28, 1872.

Specification describing-Improved Folding- (lhair, invented by JOHN (J.O0MPToN,of(llarksville, in the county of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey.

Figure l is a vertical transverse section of my improved folding-chair, showing it in position for use. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing it folded together.

This invention relates to a new arrangement of folding-chair,whereby, without increasing the cost of manufacture, the chair is made jointed to be folded together convenient for transportation, and still sufficiently strong and durable when in position for use. The invention consists in connecting the front legs, by means of arm-rests, with the chair-back, and in locking the parts in position by means of an overlapping ledge on the front of the folding seat.

A in the drawing represents the chair'back. B are the front legs, having their upper ends pivoted, at a, to the front ends of arn1-rests. The back ends of arm-rests (l are, at b, pivoted to the ohair-backj In Figs. 1 and 2 the chair is represented with arm-rests. The two front legs of the chair are, at or near their upper parts, connected by a transverse rail, d.

D is the chair-seat. It is, in Figs. 1 and. 2,.represented to be pivoted, at e, to the chair-back, and has at its front edge a downwardly-projecting lip or ledge, f, which folds over the front rail d, and thereby holds the chair entirely in position, as is clearly shown in Fig.

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